Family Quotes

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.

George Burns

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994.

Gene Hackman

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.

Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

William James Durant

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Ruby Manikan

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warne

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

The presidency is temporary - But the family is permanent.

Yvonne De Gaulle

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

Marcelene Cox

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Helen Kelle

A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury.

Eric Pio

I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

Jerrold Mundis

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld